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Gentle tribal meditation sounds.  Made for good work music on Saturday night.

Inside the Mountain by Tuluum Shimmering

From 1969, a long piece on a tour with the Stones.  The first nine-tenths of the thing are as you’d expect, I guess.  Recounting the minutiae of a huge rock tour when such things were still relatively new.  An interesting period piece.  The last tenth is Altamont.  I was born in ‘68, but “Altamont” was still a word that meant something to people as I was growing up.  After the Manson Family and the Days of Rage, Altamont was the iron door swinging shut on the hippie years.  Michael Lydon was there in the middle of it, and his coverage is clear-eyed, even cold, bleak in its detail.  Sick of the Sixties.

This tranche of panels will run to 050.

From Rian Hughes’ Instagram.

SPEKTRMODULE
23 
Cloud Circuitry   
39 minutes and 50 seconds

 

 

If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.

Direct mp3 link.  Or press Play on the player.  iTunes link.

@warrenellis / [email protected] / t-shirt? mug?

Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.

#SPEKTRMODULE

1. logotone

2.  “Small Choir” -  Christina Vantzou     (album:   No. 1)

3.  “Ships” -  Luma Lane   (album: Nice Girls)

4.  “The Last Drop of Weight” – Lunar Miasma     (album: Crystal Covered)

5.  “Goldair” -  Memotone     (EP: Koma / Goldair)

6.  “Slim Jim Wimshurst Mechanicals” -  Leyland Kirby    (album: Interpretations on F.C. Judd)

7.  “The Wounded Platelayer” – The Doomed Bird of Providence   (album: Collision Detection Box Set – Disc 2)

8.  “Morning” -  Rosy Parlane   (album:  Willow)

9.  “Spacious Sighs” -  Jim Cole and Spectral Voices    (album:  Sky)

10.  “Where No Other Can Follow” -  Svartsinn       (album: Nord Ambient Alliance Tour CD 2009)

11. logotone

All previous SPEKTRMODULE podcasts live under this category header or at spkmdl.libsyn.com.

Would you like some intense, unsettling metallic drone and medieval clanging sounds to end the night with?  Course you bloody would.

Dreams Woven Within the Tapestry by Invisible Path

Aside from the Night Music that will fire around 3am.  And the SPEKTRMODULE I’m hoping to produce at the weekend.

Anyway, I wrote this earlier:

I keep thinking I should do another “minimal web serial” on my site, late at night, to bookend SCATTERLANDS (which runs in the early PM).

Because I seem to have four minutes in each day where I’m not already doing something, apparently.

And, monstrously, the more I think about it, the more I suspect I like the idea.  Which means I must be crazy.  But there is a certain appeal to messing around with content and the expectations of a “blog.”  A (god so ugly) word that’s become both malleable and meaningless as the net moves away from them towards streams and other things.

This, however, is home base.  I don’t set up the control room on other people’s services.

(I want a Control Room so badly.  Also I think my next office chair should be a Cybersyn.)

I’m also oddly fond of the term “minimal web serial” tonight.  When thinking about something (week-) daily, I’d never really consider anything more than the single panel strip.  At most, I’d maybe think about the single “screen” Greg & Rick do on LADY SABRE (the collection of which you can still buy into on Kickstarter – I have an entirely different revenue stream process for Minimal Web Serials hahaha, but I love what they’ve put together).  No more than that. 

Something probably very different from SCATTERLANDS, which is funtime stuff.  Something more suited to posting at just past midnight.

If the notion amuses anyone, you can get me at [email protected] (eventually).

Right.  My four minutes are up.  I’m going to post control-room porn to Tumblr and get back to work.

I haven’t been to Study Group Comics in an age.  Last night, I found BLANE THROTTLE by Ben Duncan, a new webcomic there, and… no, I have no fucking idea.  But it’s pretty, and funny, and odd.  Good enough for me.

The crazy people behind TIN CAN FOREST have released this shirt into the wild, at around $30 Canadian.  I greatly love their comics and illustration work: presumably a few shirt sales will help them keep the lights on.